Nelson, Amy. Craig Ferguson hosts a late night talk show, and used to be on Drew Carey. Craig T. Nelson was Coach, and in the Poltergeist movies.
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Oh no! They got Sean!
My crush on Craig Ferguson outs itself! Yes, Craig T. Nelson. Oops.
I give it a 6/7. It's a "gotcha" and it confirms what we already know about clowns, spooky dolls, and things under the bed. So it's a Kid Nightmare Trifecta.
But many other parts of the movie are scarier, and lasting scares, and scares that you can carry with you into your actual life later.
Reading this thread has me kind of thankful I've never seen Poltergeist.
I haven't either. Yes, even though Mom and I consider "Serpico" a girlie bonding flick. I'm kind of gutless when it comes to supernatural horror, though.
I was sure I'd seen it but I don't remember any of this stuff. This is the movie where the girl goes into the TV, right?
I give it a 6/7. It's a "gotcha" and it confirms what we already know about clowns, spooky dolls, and things under the bed. So it's a Kid Nightmare Trifecta.
YES. And in my case, not helped by my mother saying after the movie "Oh, you have a clown doll like that. I think it's in the attic". THANKS MOM.
But many other parts of the movie are scarier, and lasting scares, and scares that you can carry with you into your actual life later.
The crawling steak. Carol-Anne looking around from the static-y TV and saying the classic line.
And of course, the quotable lines.
"Run to the light, Carol-Ann!!"
The scariest thing about Poltergeist to me is that both girl-children died within years of its release.
My favorite moment, though, has to be before all the weirdness starts, Steve and Joanne are getting ready for bed and Steve does the suck-in-stomach move, and then pooches it out. "Look, Joanne--Before, After. Before, After." It's such a married moment, ordinary, sweet, and funny, before all the scary.